Daming: Mixed in Dangzhi County, Beiping

Chapter 72
Suddenly, Zhu Di remembered something, and looked up at Zhu Liang who was beside him.

"Zhu Liang!"

"The end is here!"

Zhu Liang hurriedly clasped his hands in response, and looked at Zhu Di with joy on his face.

"Pull out the knife, try the steel knife in this king's hand!"

"what?"

Zhu Liang was taken aback, he thought that Zhu Di was going to give him the sharp blade, but he didn't expect to use his pocket knife to test the knife.

"Draw the knife!"

Zhu Di didn't think so much, he raised the steel knife in his hand first, and looked at Zhu Liang.

"Yes, Your Highness!"

Seeing this, Zhu Liang felt pain in his heart, but he had no choice but to draw out the knife.

"kill!"

Zhu Di roared angrily and swung his knife straight.

Zhu Di was strong in martial arts, and Zhu Liang was not weak either, with veins in his arm bulging, and he swung the steel knife fiercely.

"Zheng..."

After a loud noise, a severed blade was left on the ground.

Seeing this, everyone opened their mouths wide, and there was silence around them.

As Zhu Di's personal guard, although Zhu Liang's sword is not a magical weapon, it is also a first-class treasured sword in the Ming army.

And now, he was directly chopped off by a rough-made steel knife?

Of course, it is also possible that it was broken, but this also made everyone unbelievable.

After Zhu Di came back to his senses, he quickly put the steel knife in his hand in front of his eyes, and searched carefully.As a result, after searching for a while, I only found a small gap that was only as big as a grain of rice, and I couldn't help but be overjoyed.

"A good knife, a good steel knife, stronger and sharper than a hundred-refined steel knife..."

On the side, Zhu Liang had a bitter face, staring blankly at the steel knife in his hand that had been broken in two, with disbelief all over his face.

"Your Highness, my knife is broken!"

Zhu Di put all his attention on the steel knife in his hand, and was a little impatient with Zhu Liang's shout, "If it breaks, it will break!"

Zhu Liang: "..."

Guo An said: "Don't worry, Zhu Baihu, I'll ask Guanshi Zhong to forge another steel knife for you later! Well, it must be carefully forged!"

Zhu Liang was overjoyed, and quickly looked at Zhu Di: "Your Highness..."

"My king agrees!"

Zhu Di also put down the steel knife in his hand now, and looked at the broken knife in Zhu Liang's hand.

"Thank you Your Highness!"

The corners of Zhu Liang's mouth suddenly grinned to the base of his ears.

Seeing this, Li Wang on the side couldn't help rubbing his hands on the matching knife with some excitement, and at the same time asked Zhu Di for instructions, "Your Highness, just testing a knife is not enough to show its sharpness. Your Highness, give it a try!"

"you?"

Zhu Di glanced at Li Wang speechlessly, "Do you also want to change to a steel knife made of this material?"

"Your Highness is wise."

Li Wang quickly replied.

"That's it!"

Zhu Di nodded slowly.

"Thank you, Your Highness!" Li Wang was overjoyed.

Zhu Di looked directly at Zhong Huo at the side, and asked, "Is the steel for this kind of steel knife enough?"

Zhong Huo hurriedly replied: "Reporting to Your Highness, there are now three pieces of steel produced in iron smelting furnaces, all of which are this type of steel, which is completely sufficient."

Zhu Di nodded in satisfaction, and said: "So, first forge three pieces of this kind of steel knives for me, and I will take them back with me. In addition, I will forge a hundred steel knives for me with the remaining steel."

"The villain obeys the order!"

Zhong Huo couldn't wait to answer.

He felt that his luck had come.Even, the craftsmen of their entire iron smelting plant have also come to luck.

This Guo Xianzun is indeed a nobleman of their craftsmen.

Hearing this, Guo An inexplicably felt something was wrong.

"Your Highness, it will take at least half an hour to make three steel knives. It's getting late now, why don't I go back first and come back early tomorrow morning?"

When the words fell, Guo An couldn't help being startled, Zhu Di actually looked at him with a strange expression.

"The molten iron smelted in the giant iron smelting furnace is also this kind of molten iron?"

Guo An replied subconsciously: "Returning to Your Highness, if the predictions of the officials and others are correct, the molten iron smelted in the giant iron-smelting furnace should be better than the molten iron used for the steel knife in His Highness's hand?"

Zhu Di's face lit up with joy, his eyes sparkled with excitement, "So, the steel knife forged from molten iron in that giant iron smelting furnace is better than this one in my king's hand?"

Guo An's heart sank, and he always felt that he had said something wrong.

However, this meeting can only continue to reply: "Your Highness, it should be so!"

"Good! Very good!"

Zhu Di turned his head and looked at Li Wang who was beside him, "Li Wang, I will lead a group of soldiers back first, and tell the princess that I have important matters to attend to at the Iron Smelting Institute, so I will temporarily stay at the Iron Smelting Institute for one night today. Go back early in the morning!"

Hearing this, the faces of Zhu Fu and Guo An changed drastically.

"Your Highness, it is absolutely impossible!"

"Exactly, Your Highness, the environment of the iron smelter is so dilapidated, and there are not even many guards, it is not a good place to live. Your Highness, why don't you go back first, come back early tomorrow morning, and let the giant iron-making furnace burn until tomorrow morning. Can!"

"Hmph, the king has made up his mind, so I will try to persuade you later."

Zhu Di's face darkened, "Whoever wants to go back, he should go back with Li Wang, and I will never stop you, and I will never blame you!"

Seeing this, Guo An, Zhu Fu and the others couldn't help but look at each other.

Guo An quickly expressed his opinion, "Since His Royal Highness won't return, the lower officials will definitely not be able to either!"

Zhu Fu also quickly said: "Your Highness is here, and I will never go back."

"The end will obey orders!"

Seeing that no one was trying to persuade Zhu Di any more, Li Wang sighed helplessly, bowed his hands to Zhu Di respectfully, and walked out.

As for His Royal Highness staying overnight at the iron smelter, Li Wang was not worried at all.

"Your Highness, I wonder if the villain still needs to forge steel knives?"

On the side, Zhong Huo asked in a low voice.

Zhu Di waved his hand and said, "No need, I want to forge steel knives with molten iron in that giant iron-smelting furnace!"

"Yes, Your Highness!"

Zhong Huo responded quickly.

Afterwards, An An quietly waited on the side.

As for Zhu Di, he seemed a little dissatisfied. He waved the steel knife in his hand again, and after cutting down more than ten tree stumps in a row, he let out a soft breath and walked to the lobby where he was resting.

Entering the lobby, Guo An sat down on a rough chair, and his whole body was lying on the chair, not wanting to move.

Seeing this, Zhu Di couldn't help mocking with disgust on his face: "You are a good man, how can you be so disabled?"

Guo An didn't feel ashamed at all, and said slowly: "I am ashamed of you, Your Highness is physically strong, and I am far inferior to you!"

However, Zhu Di, who liked to practice martial arts since he was a child, and then joined the army when he grew up, was indeed more adaptable to the dirty and messy environment of the Iron Smelting Institute than civil officials such as Guo An and Zhu Fu.

Whether it's tea or dinner, they all eat with gusto.

Only Guo An and Zhu Fu faced the vegetables and food brought by Zhong Huo, as if swallowing vegetables with bran, it was difficult to swallow them.

As the sky gradually darkened, the whole iron smelting factory gradually became quiet, only around the giant iron-making furnace on the back of the mountain, there were still a few old craftsmen around, busy with concentration.

As for the other side, there are still a few rooms where iron furnaces are burning, but they are far less lively than under the giant iron furnace.

Zhong Huo also specially vacated several houses for Zhu Di, Guo An and others to rest.

It's a pity that Guo An and Zhu Fu tossed and turned in this stinky environment full of mosquitoes, neither of them could sleep well.

On the contrary, Zhu Di was sleeping soundly.

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(End of this chapter)